All posts tagged Ben Stein

Bille Jean Dream: In what will surely be one of many to come, LL Cool J today debuted a song inspired by the death of Michael Jackson. Titled “Billie Jean Dream,” the song basically consists of LL busting some fairly desultory rhymes about MJ’s music-biz stature (“Buy out the Beatles/Tell Paul to chill,”over the Billie Jean beat. Near the end, LL breaks down the song’s genesis: “Michael wrote that for me in a dream. That’s crazy, right?…I saw it on paper. I just woke up and jotted it all down. Kind of sounds that way. [Billboard]

Pee Wee Reconstructs Playhouse: Pee Wee Herman, aka Paul Reubens, is launching a comeback in the form of a stage show which will open in Los Angeles this fall. Herman’s career, of course, took an unfortunate turn in 1991, then another one in 2002, but he has appeared in a few TV shows since. Now 56 years old, it’s been almost 25 years since he starred in an eponymous Tim Burton movie. [LATimes]

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